TMIT is delighted to have Ross Koppel, PhD, Adjunct Professor of Sociology, University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. His presentation is "From MU to MUch less? What is CMS telling us?" We are also delighted to have Christopher Peabody, MD, MPH, Assistant Clinical Professor of the Department of Emergency Medicine, University of California in San Francisco, leading the launch of our Community of Practice. He will be presenting "Health IT: Front-line Problems and Solutions." John Nance, a world-class speaker, will join these presenters covering "HIT Accidents and Cybercrime Issues," along with Dan Ford, one of our nation's leading patient advocates, giving his talk on "Reflections on Visioning E.H.R. Vendor Transition and Including Patient Advocates." We will have our first Board Brief, a recorded presentation by Sharon Rossmark, Chairman of the Board of Directors for the National Children's Center in Washington, DC, and Terry Wheat, Director of Patient Care Services & Chief Nursing Officer at Shriners Hospital for Children, and a trustee of another major medical center and safety-net hospital. The topic will be "Nurses on Governance Boards." Our reactor panel of national patient advocates includes Jennifer Dingman, Founder, Persons United Limiting Substandards and Errors in Healthcare (PULSE), Colorado Division, and the other speakers.

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When:January 21, 2016 Time: 1:00 p.m.-2:30 p.m. ET
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Learning Objectives

Awareness: Participants will learn about improvement issues of leadership, best practice, and technology pertaining to H.I.T. patient safety.

Accountability: Participants will learn about the accountability issues for governance, administration, clinical, and patient safety leaders.

Ability: Participants will learn best practices topics pertaining to safe adoption, safe use, and use for safety of H.I.T.

Action: Participants will have a clear understanding of the checklist Items that they can take on following the training.

CE Participation Documentation

Texas Medical Institute of Technology, approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider Number 15996, will be issuing 1.5 contact hours for this webinar. TMIT is only providing nursing credit at this time.

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Session Speakers

Ross Koppel, PhD, FACMIFrom MU to MUch less? What is CMS telling us?

Ross Koppel, PhD, FACMI, is a leading scholar of healthcare IT, and of the interactions of people, computers and workplaces. Professor Koppel is on the faculty of the Sociology Department and of the Medical School at the University of Pennsylvania. Koppel is also a Senior Fellow of the Leonard Davis Institute at Penn’s Wharton School.
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Christopher R. Peabody, MD, MPH, is an Assistant Clinical Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, at the University of California, San Francisco. He has a strong commitment to public service and healthcare delivery to vulnerable populations. Dr. Peabody completed his residency at one of the busiest safety-net hospitals in the country, Los Angeles County Hospital and was the Chief Resident in Emergency Medicine at the University of Southern California.
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John J. Nance, JDHIT Accidents and Cybercrime Issues

One of the key thought leaders to emerge in American healthcare in the past decade, John J. Nance brings a rich and varied professional background to the task of helping doctors, administrators, boards, and front-line staff alike survive and prosper during the most profoundly challenging upheaval in the history of modern medicine. Having helped pioneer the renaissance in patient safety as one of the founders of the National Patient Safety Foundation in 1997, his efforts (and healthcare publications) are dedicated to reforming American healthcare from a reactive cottage industry to an effective and safe system of prevention and wellness.
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Dan Ford, MBA, is a patient/patient safety advocate; retired Vice President of Furst Group, a healthcare executive search firm; nationally known speaker on patient safety, has served and is serving on a number of national and regional patient safety and quality, PFE and PFAC boards/committees, serves as a patient/family advisor on LEAN process improvement events at Spectrum Health, and is a writer on patient safety and leadership.
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Sharon Rossmark, MBA, is chairman of the board of directors for the National Children's Center in Washington, DC. She also serves as vice chairman of the board of directors for the Sinai Health System in Chicago, IL. Additionally, Ms. Rossmark serves on the American Hospital Association's Midwest Regional Policy Board.
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Terry Wheat, RN, MPH, serves as the Director of Patient Care Services & Chief Nursing Officer at Shriners Hospital for Children  Chicago. Under her leadership, the hospital received the 2011 and 2013 Outstanding Nursing Quality Award for pediatric hospital from the American Nurses Association.
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Reaction Panelist

Jennifer DingmanDiscussion and Reaction to Presentations AND The Voice of Patients and Family

Jennifer Dingman realized, after her mother's death in 1995 due to errors in medical diagnoses and treatment, that there is little to no help available for patients and their families in similar situations. This life-changing experience left her feeling vulnerable, and she decided to dedicate her life to help prevent medical tragedies from happening to others.
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